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Satoshi Ogawa

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Even to Deter China, There is No Need for Japan to Hastily Discard One of its Three Non-Nuclear Principles

8:00 JST, September 19, 2026 Debate over revision of the three national security strategy documents has entered a crucial phase. The government...

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China Criticizes Sanae Takaichi, but China Itself Is to Blame for Worsening Relations with Japan

By Satoshi Ogawa 8:00 JST, January 10, 2026 Although Japan-China relations seemed to worsen after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remark that a...

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Political Polarization Comes to Japan as LDP Moves Right, Echoing Recent U.S. Republican Party History

By Satoshi Ogawa 8:00 JST, October 18, 2025 It is said that things that happen in the United States will happen in Japan about 10 years later....

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‘Japanese MAGA’ Conservatives Gain Foothold in Diet; Disenchanted Voters See LDP as Ineffective, Elitist

By Satoshi Ogawa 8:00 JST, July 26, 2025 The July 20 House of Councillors election showed that the foundation of Japan’s political order has...

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